4 Productivity Hacks for Musicians (And Everyone Else)

These days, everybody's looking for ways to be more productive than the day before, and being a musician doesn't get you out of getting work done. Squeezing the most out of every minute has become essential – and exhausting. With so much to do in the realms of recording, gigging, and promoting, and so many distractions (not to mention not nearly enough time for any of it), how is anybody supposed to get anything done?

Guest Post by Hugh McIntyre on Sonicbids Blog 

Here are four tips that will help you stay on track and do more, no matter who you are.

1. Set a few goals you must reach

Everybody has plenty of things that they want to do and goals to accomplish, but sometimes looking at a long list of daunting tasks can be counterproductive. Instead of being intimidated by too many things that still have a lot of work before they're completed, focus on just a few items that must be finished by a certain date.

For example, as a writer, I have a massive list of articles that I want to write for various publications, and I'm sure that plenty of them will never come to fruition. Instead of being exhausted by simply looking at the dozens (hundreds, really) of thoughts and half-written pieces, I keep that list separate from the few things I need to make sure I finish. Each one has a relative time frame of when it must be completed, be that a certain day, week, month, or season. A breaking news item must go live on that day, whereas a story ab